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@article{quinlan1987simplifying,
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  journal={International journal of man-machine studies},
  volume={27},
  number={3},
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}

@book{quinlan1993c4,
  title={C4.5: Programs for Machine Learning},
  author={Quinlan, J. Ross},
  series={C4.5 - programs for machine learning / J. Ross Quinlan},
  year={1993},
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}

@article{quinlan1986induction,
  title={Induction of decision trees},
  author={Quinlan, J. Ross},
  journal={Machine learning},
  volume={1},
  number={1},
  pages={81--106},
  year={1986},
  publisher={Springer}
}

@article{tong2003decision,
  title={Decision forest: combining the predictions of multiple independent decision tree models},
  author={Tong, Weida and Hong, Huixiao and Fang, Hong and Xie, Qian and Perkins, Roger},
  journal={Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences},
  volume={43},
  number={2},
  pages={525--531},
  year={2003},
  publisher={ACS Publications}
}

@article{zhang2005missing,
  title={" Missing is useful": missing values in cost-sensitive decision trees},
  author={Zhang, Shichao and Qin, Zhenxing and Ling, Charles X and Sheng, Shengli},
  journal={Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on},
  volume={17},
  number={12},
  pages={1689--1693},
  year={2005},
  publisher={IEEE}
}


@article{curram1994neural,
  title={Neural networks, decision tree induction and discriminant analysis: An empirical comparison},
  author={Curram, Stephen P. and Mingers, John},
  journal={Journal of the Operational Research Society},
  volume={45},
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  year={1994}
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@inproceedings{huang2003comparing,
  title={Comparing naive Bayes, decision trees, and SVM with AUC and accuracy},
  author={Huang, Jin and Lu, Jingjing and Ling, Charles X.},
  booktitle={Data Mining, 2003. ICDM 2003. Third IEEE International Conference on},
  pages={553--556},
  year={2003},
  organization={IEEE}
}

@article{safavian1991survey,
  title={A survey of decision tree classifier methodology},
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  volume={21},
  number={3},
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  year={1991}
}

@article{banfield2007comparison,
  title={A comparison of decision tree ensemble creation techniques},
  author={Banfield, Robert E. and Hall, Lawrence O. and Bowyer, Kevin W. and Kegelmeyer, W. Philip},
  journal={Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on},
  volume={29},
  number={1},
  pages={173--180},
  year={2007},
  publisher={IEEE}
}


@article{lavanya2011performance,
  title={Performance Evaluation of Decision Tree Classifiers on Medical Datasets},
  author={Lavanya, D. and Rani, K. Usha},
  journal={International Journal of Computer Applications},
  volume={26},
  year={2011}
}

@article{buhrman2002complexity,
  title={Complexity measures and decision tree complexity: a survey},
  author={Buhrman, Harry and De Wolf, Ronald},
  journal={Theoretical Computer Science},
  volume={288},
  number={1},
  pages={21--43},
  year={2002},
  publisher={Elsevier}
}

@inproceedings{su2006fast,
  title={A fast decision tree learning algorithm},
  author={Su, Jiang and Zhang, Harry},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  volume={21},
  number={1},
  pages={500},
  year={2006},
  organization={AAAI Press; MIT Press; 1999}
}

@book{duda2012pattern,
  title={Pattern classification},
  author={Duda, Richard O. and Hart, Peter E. and Stork, David G.},
  year={2012},
  publisher={John Wiley \& Sons}
}

@article{morgan1963problems,
  title={Problems in the analysis of survey data, and a proposal},
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  journal={Journal of the American statistical association},
  volume={58},
  number={302},
  pages={415--434},
  year={1963},
  publisher={Taylor \& Francis Group}
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{Kohavi99decisiontree,
    author = {Ron Kohavi and Quinlan, J. Ross},
    title = {Decision Tree Discovery},
    booktitle = {Handbook of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery},
    year = {1999},
    pages = {267--276},
    publisher = {University Press}
}

@article{lagacherie1997addressing,
  title={Addressing geographical data errors in a classification tree for soil unit prediction},
  author={Lagacherie, Philippe and Holmes, Susan},
  journal={International Journal of Geographical Information Science},
  volume={11},
  number={2},
  pages={183--198},
  year={1997},
  publisher={Taylor \& Francis}
}

@article{wu2006effective,
  title={An effective application of decision tree to stock trading},
  author={Wu, Muh-Cherng and Lin, Sheng-Yu and Lin, Chia-Hsin},
  journal={Expert Systems with Applications},
  volume={31},
  number={2},
  pages={270--274},
  year={2006},
  publisher={Elsevier}
}

@article{blurock1995automatic,
  title={Automatic learning of chemical concepts: Research octane number and molecular substructures},
  author={Blurock, Edward S.},
  journal={Computers \& chemistry},
  volume={19},
  number={2},
  pages={91--99},
  year={1995},
  publisher={Elsevier}
}


@article{vlahou2003diagnosis,
  title={Diagnosis of ovarian cancer using decision tree classification of mass spectral data},
  author={Vlahou, Antonia and Schorge, John O. and Gregory, Betsy W. and Coleman, Robert L.},
  journal={BioMed Research International},
  volume={2003},
  number={5},
  pages={308--314},
  year={2003},
  publisher={Hindawi Publishing Corporation}
}


@article{salzberg1995decision,
  title={Decision trees for automated identification of cosmic-ray hits in Hubble Space Telescope images},
  author={Salzberg, Steven and Chandar, Rupali and Ford, Holland and Murthy, Sreerama K. and White, Richard},
  journal={Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific},
  pages={279--288},
  year={1995},
  publisher={JSTOR}
}

@article{mingers1989empirical,
  title={An empirical comparison of selection measures for decision-tree induction},
  author={Mingers, John},
  journal={Machine learning},
  volume={3},
  number={4},
  pages={319--342},
  year={1989},
  publisher={Springer}
}

@article{buntine1992further,
  title={A further comparison of splitting rules for decision-tree induction},
  author={Buntine, Wray and Niblett, Tim},
  journal={Machine Learning},
  volume={8},
  number={1},
  pages={75--85},
  year={1992},
  publisher={Springer}
}


@article{shih1999families,
  title={Families of splitting criteria for classification trees},
  author={Shih, Yu-Shan},
  journal={Statistics and Computing},
  volume={9},
  number={4},
  pages={309--315},
  year={1999},
  publisher={Springer}
}

@inproceedings{drummond2000exploiting,
  title={Exploiting the cost (in) sensitivity of decision tree splitting criteria},
  author={Drummond, Chris and Holte, Robert C.},
  booktitle={ICML},
  pages={239--246},
  year={2000}
}

@article{breiman1996technical,
  title={Technical note: Some properties of splitting criteria},
  author={Breiman, Leo},
  journal={Machine Learning},
  volume={24},
  number={1},
  pages={41--47},
  year={1996},
  publisher={Springer}
}


@book{rokach2008data,
  title={Data Mining with Decision Trees: Theory and Applications},
  author={Rokach, L.},
  series={Series in machine perception and artificial intelligence},
  year={2008},
  publisher={World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated}
}


@article{shannon2001mathematical,
  title={A mathematical theory of communication},
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  journal={The Bell System Technical Journal},
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  year={1948},
  publisher={ACM}
}

@book{dos2012entropy,
  title={Entropy Guided Transformation Learning: Algorithms and Applications: Algorithms and Applications},
  author={dos Santos, C.N. and Milidi{\'u}, R.L.},
  series={SpringerBriefs in Computer Science},
  year={2012},
  publisher={Springer}
}


@book{rob2008database,
  title={Database Systems: Design, Implementation \& Management},
  author={Rob, P. and Coronel, C. and Crockett, K.},
  year={2008},
  publisher={Cengage Learning}
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@article{goldman2010self,
  title={Self-Pruning Prediction Trees},
  author={Goldman, Sally and Singer, Yoram},
  journal={WiML},
  url={http://snowbird.djvuzone.org/2010/abstracts/122.pdf},
  year={2013}
}

@article{kass1980exploratory,
  title={An exploratory technique for investigating large quantities of categorical data},
  author={Kass, Gordon V.},
  journal={Applied statistics},
  pages={119--127},
  year={1980},
  publisher={JSTOR}
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@article{messenger1972modal,
  title={A modal search technique for predictive nominal scale multivariate analysis},
  author={Messenger, Robert and Mandell, Lewis},
  journal={Journal of the American statistical association},
  volume={67},
  number={340},
  pages={768--772},
  year={1972},
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@book{cormen2001introduction,
  title={Introduction to algorithms},
  author={Cormen, Thomas H. and Leiserson, Charles E. and Rivest, Ronald L. and Stein, Clifford and others},
  volume={2},
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  publisher={MIT Press}
}
